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Nobody said Omar was wrong. The fact is that the majority of terrorists in the USA are white males who are full of hate and have low self esteem.

She is wrong, as are you and that's not a fact.
The more important part is she's using the exact same rhetoric she's decrying.
You don't have to believe me, but you can start here. I've posted it before only to have it wholesale dismissed because it doesn't fit the desired narrative. And while its focus is mental illness, it delves into race and stereotyping (what you're doing here) quite well in section three. It's also sourced with a ton of links. Read it, don't. I don't give a ****.

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It is important to note, however, that the seemingly self-evident images of the mentally disturbed, gun-obsessed, White male loner or the individually pathologized White male brain are also relatively recent phenomena. Critics hold that this framing plays off of rhetoric about hegemonic White male individualism and privilege that ultimately reinforce wider arguments for gun rights.

In the 1960s and 1970s, by contrast, many of the men labeled as violent and mentally ill were also, it turned out, Black. And, when the potential assailants of a crime were Black, US psychiatric and popular culture frequently blamed “Black culture” or Black activist politics—not individual, disordered brains—for the threats such men were imagined to pose.

A Democratic Socialists of America convention erupted on Sunday in Atlanta as delegates repeatedly interrupted speakers and each other to launch formal complaints about "sensory overload" and the use of gendered pronouns.

"Uh, quick point of personal privilege, um guys," an audience member called out as the chairwoman was giving remarks. "I just want to say, can we please keep the chatter to the minimum? I'm one of the people who's very, very prone to sensory overload.

"There's a lot of whispering and chattering going on. It's making it very difficult for me to focus," he continued. "Please, I know we're all fresh and ready to go, but can we please just keep the chatter to a minimum? It's affecting my ability to focus."

This is priceless...

However, before the chairwoman could return to her comments, another person in the crowd called out, "Point of personal privilege! Point of personal privilege!"

After being given permission to speak, the attendee requested, "Please do not use gendered language to address everyone!"

Later on, the first attendee asked to express a "quick point of privilege yet again."

"I have already asked people to be mindful of the chatter of their comrades who are sensitive to sensory overload," he said. "And that goes double for the heckling and the hissing. It is also triggering to my anxiety. Like, being comradely isn't just for like, keeping things civil or whatever. It's so people aren't going to get triggered, and so that it doesn't affect their performance as a delegate."

So these snowflakes spent the day trying to out-woke each other. Damn shame Bernie or AOC didn't show up.

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The thing about the jazz hands was news to me.
I mean, I get that there are people in the world who have an honest medical condition which makes them averse to loud noises, people on the spectrum and such. But was that even the case this time?

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The thing about the jazz hands was news to me.
I mean, I get that there are people in the world who have an honest medical condition which makes them averse to loud noises, people on the spectrum and such. But was that even the case this time?

Not to sound too whiny, but I've been trying to warn y'all about these people for three or four years now, and everyone kinda shrugged because it seemed so ludicrous. Hell, even I wondered if I was making a mountain out of a molehill, but it just keeps building momentum. It's already utterly consumed the liberal arts, and it's leaking into the media and other disciplines as well.

These people are why I can't bring myself to despise Trump. I'd rather have a tactless strutting ******* as president than continuing the ongoing creep towards that. We're already seeing how quickly their thinking has spread through the Democrats policy offerings. I'd vote for Obama a thousand times over Trump, but these people are truly frightening to me. It's like they have a highly contagious disease that makes everyone revert to being mentally ten years old.

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Off topic, re: FT's comment above.
The new forum software has some funky anti-spam sensor that hides some comments for no apparent reason.

It happens if you edit a post, but I'm not sure what the exact parameters are. In the case of that post all I did was change a word, and I think if the post is too similar to what you previously posted the system thinks you're spamming. It's obviously not a very smart system since it doesn't differentiate an edit from a new post.

Madness is the exception in individuals, but the rule in groups.

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Not to sound too whiny, but I've been trying to warn y'all about these people for a couple years now, and everyone kinda shrugged because it seemed so ludicrous. Hell, even I wondered if I was making a mountain out of a molehill, but it just keeps building momentum. It's already utterly consumed the liberal arts, and it's leaking into other disciplines as well.

Well, my opinion is that these people are so inept, so gawkish that they'll never really gain a foothold with mainstream America. How on earth could anyone take this seriously? Point of personal privilege? Sensory overload? Gender pronouns? How do people like that function enough to get through a routine day?

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Well, my opinion is that these people are so inept, so gawkish that they'll never really gain a foothold with mainstream America. How on earth could anyone take this seriously? Point of personal privilege? Sensory overload? Gender pronouns? How do people like that function enough to get through a routine day?

See that's the thing--I don't think most Americans can take it seriously until they see it. But the MSM hasn't been talking about this stuff, so most people don't see it. It's people like me, who gave up on the MSM half a decade ago and started digging for unfiltered sources who have been sounding the alarm. The information is out there, but it rarely gets more than a passing mention by left-wing news sources (which is almost all of them.)

That's an explicit violation of A1 by a municipal government. Did the MSM report it? How did they report it?

People need to understand that some of this **** is being made law in parts of the country. How long before it's illegal to applaud loudly in a public setting?

Most of the MSM is complicit in this. They're so focused on right-wing extremism they completely missed the extremism on their own left-wing. And no one would care about it if the advocates of this bull**** weren't effective in converting their insanity to law.

It looks like it only, or mainly, applies to employment and public accommodation, but sure, it's a solution in search of a problem. I agree. It's like when LA put out guidelines to vendors to stop using terminology that included "master" and "slave" (such as in IT and automotive) because it was offensive to some. Literally, snowflake stuff.

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It looks like it only, or mainly, applies to employment and public accommodation, but sure, it's a solution in search of a problem. I agree. It's like when LA put out guidelines to vendors to stop using terminology that included "master" and "slave" (such as in IT and automotive) because it was offensive to some. Literally, snowflake stuff.

You have to look closely at that law to see how insidious it really is.

This law empowers the city of New York to decide what private health insurance an employer may provide, or be held in violation.

In other words, by law, the employer must provide health insurance from a provider who is being forced to spend money on "transitional care." No one is allowed an opinion on this. You must conform, even if you find it morally reprehensible or financially foolhardy, it doesn't matter. The City of New York has decided for you.

With that law, they not only "make a statement," they restrict freedom of speech, limit the rights of employers to choose health care providers, and pressure insurance companies to conform to their ethos or lose business, not to mention restricting basic freedoms like owning a restaurant where men are required to wear a tie.

And worst of all, they do all this without any scientific or medical consensus that this is actually helpful to anyone. You certainly won't find many actual biologist who agrees with the definition of gender as specified in that law. Thing is, if they work for the city of New York and they actually disagree with the law, they might be found in violation of the law!

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Technically, his thing was bill C-16 in Canada. But yeah, real similar bill. People think if you protest a law like that you're anti-trans, and while I'm sure some of the people who protest it are, the real principle is freedom of thought.